Overpowering

(adj.) so strong as to be irresistible; 'an overpowering need for solitude'; 'the temptation to despair may become overwhelming'; 'an overwhelming majority' .

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• In my overpowering anxiety to hear what she had to tell me, I could not answer her--I could only put questions on my side. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• He was altogether splendid, massive, overpowering, and impracticable. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• And she had a disagreeable consciousness of not appearing to imply that it had been an overpowering pleasure. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It must, as you say, have been an overpowering necessity which tore him away in such a fashion, and the same necessity is likely to hold him away. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Even to see Mr. Crawford would be less overpowering. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• In the overpowering fears about to-morrow she had forgotten Rebecca--jealousy--everything except that her husband was gone and was in danger. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Under the overpowering influence of these sickly imaginations the moral teachings of Gautama have been almost hid from view. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The effect of the good news on poor Lady Glyde was, I grieve to say, quite overpowering. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• But what power could the strongest swimmer oppose to the overpowering violence of ocean in its fury? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have more than once taken advantage of it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Such was the overpowering expectation of the audience to which President Wilson prepared to show himself. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Suddenly Birkin's eyes looked straight and overpowering into those of the other man. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• What could be the reason of his overpowering terror? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Their appetite for the concrete was enormous; their knowledge of facts overpowering, as the tomes produced by Mr. and Mrs. Webb can testify. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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